A Pause From Life! YA Novel Style! discussion
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Death of Main Characters?
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Reiko
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Dec 12, 2013 08:22AM
I sort of go all teary and stuff when the main characters other half goes expressing about his/her emotions. A very good example is one by Veronica Roth. For those who know, you know. For those who don't..... shall we not spoil it?
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Haha! I bet most people might feel sad and angry at the same time but oh well, we're not the author! Though I must admit the book turned out really well in the end.
Oh Samantha you definitely need to read it, I had doubts before I read it because I found out spoilers but it is truly worth the read :)
Yeah you should read it, someone gave me some advise on goodreads, don't bother with what other people think, read it for yourself and find out :D
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I think it all depends on how it's done, like any other aspect of writing. An excellent author who makes the decision to terminate the life of a beloved main character is likely to render the scenario well, and tie it in meaningfully with what we've read in the books to that point. A less skillful author is less likely to portray the death in a way that fills us up even as it empties us.I know authors struggle with eliminating important characters too, though. While writing the third and fourth books in his Unwind dystology, Neal Shusterman at one point commented on Facebook that he'd had to "kill off" a major character (not telling us who, of course), and doing so had been a highly emotional experience. A little later that day, Neal Shusterman commented again that when he'd reached a juncture where another major character had been planned to be eliminated for a long while, he couldn't bring himself to write it, so he changed the story to let that character live. Being allowed that window into the writing process of a genius like Neal Shusterman is often illuminating.
